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Initially Posted - 07/10/2004 :  14:46:54  Show Profile
Iam a new owner and the traile I have is a 1977 version that needs new brakes from the actuator to the shoes and everything inbetween. My truck has an electric connector that I use to pull a 5th wheel with electric brakes. The cost to change from hydrolic to electric is about the same but I noticed the boat trailers where I store mine all seem to have hydrolic breaks. Salt is not going to be a problem because we live inland. Any reasons not to change to electric that Iam missing?
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  15:39:20  Show Profile
Electric brakes are a huge improvement over surge brakes. I've pulled my travel trailer with electric brakes during a sudden storm, with heavily flooded streets, and found that the electric brakes still work just fine, even when fully submerged in water.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 07/10/2004 :  23:44:03  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Steve is right modern electrics are just as submersible as surges ever were and a lot safer.
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lcharlot
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Response Posted - 07/11/2004 :  11:12:54  Show Profile
Electrib brakes may be okay to submerge them in a freshwater lake, but what if Bead trailers the boat out to the coast someday? Can these brakes stand up to salt water? Of course, he could always have the boat slung in and out on a travel lift to keep the trailer out of the water. I will probably do that myself for future cruises to the San Juans. On the two previous San Juans cruises I have made, I ramp-launched the boat at Bellingham, WA, and within a few months had a trailer brake fire due to a seized wheel cylinder. Salt just destroys these drum-type trailer brakes! There is a travel lift at Cap Sante marina in Anacortes, WA, and in future I think I will use it, despite the higher cost. Seems to me that the cost of the travel lift is less than the cost of the damage that a salt water dunking does to the trailer.
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